the magnificent Early Attic vases, huge two-handled ampho-
rae or great bowls, with or without lids, displayed to their
greatest advantage.

The mound or barrow—tymbos in Greek, tumulus in
Latin and modern Archaeologese—constituted a family lot::
shallow pit-graves could be dug into it, sometimes for several
generations. Babies and infants would be buried in clay
amphorae or in little oval bath-tubs of terracotta. The sac-
rificial channels of sun-dried bricks apparently fell into disuse
early in the sixth century. They were peculiar to Attica; some
have occasionally been discovered in various village ceme-
teries, as far afield as Marathon. But our excavations have
provided by far the richest, and the only carefully examined
series of these curious structures.